Vent: I looked up the actual number of people who worked on the Apollo program and it blew my mind

I was in a rabbit hole about the moon landing being fake, and I got curious about how many people it would take to pull off a hoax that big. I found a NASA fact sheet that said over 400,000 engineers, scientists, and technicians worked on Apollo across the whole country. That's like the population of a big city. I mean, how do you keep that many people quiet for over 50 years? The logistics of faking it with that many people involved seems way harder than just going to the moon. Has anyone else seen a good argument against this point?

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anthony_lane552d ago

That 400,000 number is just for NASA and its main contractors. You have to add all the subcontractors and suppliers, probably pushing it over half a million. The idea that every single one of those people, plus their families, could keep a secret that huge is just wild. The sheer cost of paying them all off would be more than the actual program. It falls apart the second you look at the people involved.

tessa_lewis2d ago

But how many of those half million actually knew the full picture instead of just their small part?